Hi Swank If you just use "for your own purpose" like displaying the result of database to your page. Please donot use xml, the html feature is more than enough because as you know very well xml has tags and depends on your column size the more columns, more tags you need to add.
But xml has its own beauty if you want to pass the result to other party (not displaying to ie or netscape). Alot of parser available for developer to use to parse the data from the tag. Long time ago we use comma seperator to pass data to other party and the other site must "develop" own parser to remove the comma, but with xml parser available you donot have to "develop" your own Honestly speaking if you are comfortable pasing data with csv to other party and the other side feel the same, stick with it. It takes time to learn on how to use xml parser. regards Snapple ----- Original Message ----- From: "swank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 6:08 PM Subject: How XML benefits ColdFusion developers > Hi, > > I've been searching high and low to find a good explanation of this with > no luck... > > What benefit does XML give over the standard non-CF database driven site? > > I am new to XML, but as I understand it XML's greatness is that it gives > greater meaning to data, removing the visual presentation mark-up of > html making the data more portable. > > In many ways, this seem to be doing the same thing that my "old" CF apps > were doing, stuffing data into mySQL... > > In fact, many of the explanations of XML i've read, attempt to explain > XML by comparing to the structure of a database... Each row of a > database is made up of fields which describe the the data that they > contain....just like XML... > > So, my question is how does XML relate to the database? > > > > thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction. > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
